DevOps Summit

Know the Speakers

Elaine Wilson

Garima Bajpai

Momshad Khan

Jorge Castro

Soha Solouki

Sitaram Iyer

Stephen Cross

Ronak Vyas

Mark Allen

Made Mulia

Cliff Ellement

Alexei Pivkine

Piyali Roy

Keynote Speaker

Rima Aristocrat

Rima Aristocrat is a President & CEO of 155-year old Willis College offering industry-led, job- ready skills training and education, enabling people to transition into careers in business, healthcare, technology and Cybersecurity. As an educator, entrepreneur, philanthropist and keynote speaker, Rima Aristocrat has been bridging the skills gap between education and industry for more than 40 years.

Hall of Fame

Willis College BHT – President/CEO

CAIP – Founding Director

TeKnoWave Inc. – Founder/President

VFTP Canada – Founding Director

Elevate International – Director

Women Cybersecurity Society – Director

Ottawa Cybersecurity Meetup Group – Executive

Agenda

4th November | Day 1 | Hall A

9:00 – 9:30

Registration & Mingle

9:30 – 9:35

Opening Keynote – Jayne Groll – CEO DevOps Institute

Humans of DevOps

9:35 – 9:45

Garima Bajpai – DevOps Ambassador – Capital Carbon Consulting

Unlocking transformative potential of DevOps

9:45 – 10:30

Keynote Speaker – Rima Aristocrat – CEO Willis College

The crucial role of education and training in CyberSecurity (DevSecOps)

10:30 – 11:00

Mark Allen – Palo Alto Network, Canada

How to get your security teams to “Shift Left”

11.00 – 12:00

DevOps Panel

Key trends of DevOps in 2020

12:00 – 1:00

Refreshment and Mingle

1:00 – 2:00

Jorge Castro – IT Program Manager

Building DevOps Ways of Working at large Enterprise through learning, collaboration and Gamification experiences

2:00 – 3:00

Sitaram Iyer – Developer Engagement Strategy Leader at Venafi

Scaling X.509-based identities for DevOps and Multi-Cloud Agility

3:00 – 4:00

Soha Solouki – Researcher U-Ottawa

Exploring the Knowledge Management Practices and Technologies in DevOps

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Momshad Khan

Currently Working as Senior Engineering Manager at Monotype and driving the key initiatives around Enterprise-wide re-platforming initiatives.The current implementation includes containers,Serverless,Microservices and a complete CI/CD pipeline and Kubernetes orchestration.Prior to Monotype, he has worked with Tech Mahindra, Newgen and Times Group where he headed Mobile apps and Techgig.com.He founded a company in 2011 called cdclabs.com and for the last couple of years, he has been an advisor to a few start-ups in deep technology and Social enterprise.Momshad is a computer science engineering graduate and has few executive programs under his belt from IIM Kolkata and ISB Hyderabad.He is a great fan of Lean Start-Up strategy and loves to help people launch their MVP in his free time.

Jorge Castro

Jorge is an agilist who feels passion for Testing Automation, Agile, DevOps and business agility. He enjoys research and learning about business agility and working with cutting-edge technologies. He has been learning continuously for more than 12 years and is still learning new ways to foster business agility and team greatness. He has worked in several roles (developer, tester, manager, agile coach) which helps him to see the big picture and operational and team members dynamics happening inside organizations. This experience lets him help teams design, build and implement digital, DevOps and agile transformation strategies. He encourages focus on: People, Productivity, Continuous improvement, Innovation and having fun to enjoy success in our agile journeys.

Soha Solouki

Soha Solouki is a Graduate Research Assistant with a specialization in Electronic Business Technologies, at the U-Ottawa, Telfer School of management. She also holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering. Her Research Explores the Knowledge Management Practices & Technologies in DevOps. In addition to her interest and work in research, Soha has worked for 11 years as a Business Analyst and Research and Development Specialist in her entrepreneurial family firm as well as other automotive companies.

Elaine Wilson

Elaine Wilson is a Co-founder of Capital Carbon Consulting. Elaine is a performance driven, Global IT professional with over 18 years’ experience delivering complex Software Development Solutions & Projects, Elaine’s career has been a exciting & treasured journey through early childhood education, heath care, finance, property management, global IT service, portfolio & people manager. Elaine is passionate about though leadership and connecting people, processes & tools together to ignite success!

Garima Bajpai

Garima Bajpai is Co-Founder, DevOps Community of Practice, Canada and Executive Board Member of Capital Carbon Consulting committed to helping organizations struggling with complex digital transformation & development projects. She is leading the operational vision of the company by ultimately maximizing value for customers through the Strategic Business Transformation. She has helped a wide variety of organizations adopt agile software delivery practices. She is a frequent keynote at major industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports

Sitaram Iyer

Sitaram Iyer leads the developer engagement strategy at Venafi, the industry leader in Machine Identity Protection. For more than 10 years, Sitaram has led teams of highly experienced technologists with a primary focus on influencing developers to become champions. Before Venafi, Sitaram spent over 16 years at TIBCO, most recently as Director, Digital Content Strategy where he was responsible for creating an ecosystem in which developers had access to a robust toolset to build rich cloud native applications.

At Venafi, Sitaram and his team concentrate on building an ecosystem of security tools and services for developers. The tools and services balance comfort and ease of use for developers with the security team’s need to define and enforce rules and policies for the organization. .

Ronak Vyas

Consultant, Digital Strategy and Operations, Emerging Technologies. A seasoned DevOps evangelist, Ronak has worked across multiple tech disciplines in both large and small Technology companies, Fintech as well as PR and Consulting companies. With DevOps as his core skill, he has architected and built software delivery pipelines for both scaling the team’s capacity on using newer automation technologies and benchmark a resilient software delivery methodology. He will discuss the journey from “discovery to delivery” in digital transformation bridging the gap between Devops and AI.

Rima Aristocrat

Rima Aristocrat is a President & CEO of 155-year old Willis College offering industry-led, job- ready skills training and education, enabling people to transition into careers in business, healthcare, technology and Cybersecurity. As an educator, entrepreneur, philanthropist and keynote speaker, Rima Aristocrat has been bridging the skills gap between education and industry for more than 40 years.

Hall of Fame

Willis College BHT - President/CEO

CAIP - Founding Director

TeKnoWave Inc. - Founder/President

VFTP Canada - Founding Director

Elevate International - Director

Women Cybersecurity Society - Director

Ottawa Cybersecurity Meetup Group - Executive

Talk Title: Crucial role of Education & Training in Cyber Security, closing the skill gap by building Humans for Cybersecurity, DevSecOps

Mark Allen

Mark Allen is a cybersecurity professional with over 15 years experience working within all verticals from government to financial. Mark currently works for Palo Alto Networks as a Systems Engineer where he works with infrastructure and development teams to secure their transition to cloud architectures. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Mark was a Network and Security Consultant where he helped organizations architect, deploy, and operate their networks securely. Mark has also been invited to speak publicly about cloud security for AWS, Azure, GCP, and VMware.

Made Mulia Indrajaya

Made Mulia is an accredited trainer and DevOps Ambassador from DevOps Institute. Made currently works as Managing Partner in NaradaCode, and actively contribute as a speaker in many conferences and events. Made is also a core organiser of DevOps Indonesia community, and DevOpsDays event in Jakarta, Indonesia. As a DevOps consultant and coach, Made has helped several enterprises and banks in Indonesia to adopt DevOps, Modern IT Service Management and embed Security practices at speed and scale in it to help them stay a head of competition in this digital era.

Cliff Ellement

Cliff Ellement is the Managing Director of The Resiliency Council of Canada (TRCC), a Cyber Security Advisory, Assessment and Certification company Headquartered in Ottawa. Cliff has over 25 years experience as a Data Network Architect and Senior Product Management Leader and has successfully launched several global communication network infrastructure and monitoring product lines as well as Secured Enterprise Applications (SaaS) Services. He has developed extensive expertise in networking, resiliency, operations and security frameworks with deep insights of customer segment requirements spanning SME to Enterprise market segments. Cliff is driving to develop new Cyber Security product and services to aid the development, deployment and operation of a Highly Connected and Resilient world.

Alexei Pivkine

Alexei Pivkine is a Technical Director at Snyk. For over 11 years, Alexei has been helping companies around the globe establish successful application security programs and integrate application security testing into their software development practices. In his previous role, Alexei was the Worldwide Technical Leader for the Application Security segment at IBM. He holds a CISSP certification and has built secure software as a developer.

Piyali Roy

Experienced ICT business unit leader, having spent 20 years delivering vertical market technology solutions for government and commercial customers. In roles spanning Asia Pacific, Africa and Europe, I've developed a thorough understanding and enjoyment of the challenges of diverse business dynamics and how disruptivetechnology impacts them. Adept at building highly skilled, engaged teams that deliver exceptional customer service and high levels of customer satisfaction, and enjoy turning around under-performing business units, deriving great satisfaction from the improved business performance, client satisfaction, and employee engagement and account mining.